borstal

How To Use borstal In A Sentence

• After a time teaching drama in borstals, prisons and community centres, he suffered two more breakdowns until one day, while sitting on a bus, his persistent angst, dread and fear of failure simply evaporated.
• Famously banned from the BBC's Play for Today slot in the 1970s, Clarke's harrowing drama about life inside a borstal was remade two years later as an equally notorious film.
• After a couple of stints at an approved school and a dose of borstal he had worked on building sites as a labourer and dumper truck driver. THE OPEN DOOR
• They formed part of a raucous theatre group called Van Load, visiting borstals, pubs and the occasional prison to bring theatre to the masses.
• These schools, which are often like Victorian borstals, still exist.
• Then it felt like everything stopped, because I felt like I had no support and was really depressed for a few months about the prospect of going to borstal or somewhere.
• The punishment that we all most feared was being sent to a borstal.
• His protectors had sprung the 14-year-old Tyson from borstal on the promise of giving him a stable home and schooling.
• In 1941, he was sent to Borstal for breaking into a Waterloo hosiery store and was then given a 15-month prison sentence at Wandsworth prison for shopbreaking. WN.com - Articles related to British Airways fuel price-fixing trial collapses
• For years, he had been in and out of the authorities' grasp, in borstal, and on a particular Swedish brand of psychiatric probation.